Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein / With Two Shorter Stories

by Gertrude Stein

In not needing expectation one is being one completing something and completing anything is anything.

This is something. This and everything is something and all of everything is what any one deciding everything is expecting. In expecting all of that thing that one not needing expectation is beginning again completing everything. In completing everything beginning and ending has no meaning and why should beginning and ending have meaning if everything is something. Why should they have meaning if deciding anything is what any one is doing.

Some are deciding something. In deciding they are not expecting and in not expecting they are attending to being ones arranging everything if everything being arranged anything is happening. But nothing is happening because if anything were happening beginning and ending would be having meaning and if beginning and ending did have meaning then not anything would be something any one was deciding and if not any one was deciding anything then every one would be expecting something and if every one were being ones being expecting then not any one would be one doing reasoning and if not any one was one reasoning then not any one would be one completing everything. This is that thing.

Hearing and not answering, hearing and answering something, telling little things and telling too much then, making suggestions and not making the whole of any one of them, changing before completely beginning to tell that something is like some other thing, remembering that if one were telling something some one would be answering, forgetting that laughing is annoying, remembering that forgetting is annoying, explaining that beginning anything is what is not happening, denying that every one said something, telling some little thing that some one might have said, explaining that if anything was said it was a thing that being something was something that not any one could have said, all this is something. When all this is something and all this is always something, when all this is something then some one being certain that something is existing is certain that all this is existing. When that one is certain that all this is existing then that one explaining everything will be explaining that all this being something anything is something and anything being something something is existing and something being existing anything is existing and anything being existing everything is expressing that thing.

Some are some who being some and remembering something of that thing come to be some who are existing in being some who are being remembering that having been and being something they are being and being something. They are some and going on they can tell everything they can tell that telling everything is telling what they are in being some who are being some who are something. Yes they are telling that thing. Certainly they are telling that thing. Why should they not tell that thing when they are ones being ones who being existing in being ones who are something are ones who in telling that thing are telling everything. They are then they are telling everything, they are telling that they are some who are something. They are some and they are coming to be the ones who being existing are the ones any one listening will be hearing telling everything. In telling that they are some they are telling everything. In telling everything they are ones having it continuing that every thing is existing. They are all some who are something. They are telling that thing. That is everything.

Any one remembering something is one who might not have been doing that thing doing the thing that one is remembering having been doing. Any one doing anything is one who may be one not remembering the thing that one was doing. In being one tumbling some one may be one who might have been tumbling if that one had been one who was running. That one was tumbling that one had been one who commenced to be one commencing to run. In being that one that one was one tumbling. In being one tumbling any one could be one picking up that one. In any one picking up that one some were certain that that one could have been one tumbling. In picking up that one some were certain that that one was one who would not be tumbling. In picking up that one some were remembering that picking up some one was something that they might not be doing. In picking up that one some were expecting that if they were picking up any one again it would not be that one.

In doing something some who could be ones being gay ones are ones remembering that they are then being ones who are not gay ones. In doing something some who are ones who could be ones doing that thing are remembering that they are not ones to do that thing they certainly are not ones to do that thing then. In being ones who certainly are not ones to do that thing then they are ones coming to be knowing that any one who comes to be one doing that thing comes to be one who can be doing that thing. Any one doing anything can come to be one who can be doing that thing. A person who is visiting and who is uncomfortable can be more uncomfortable before that visiting is over. A person who is visiting and is not comfortable can go on being not comfortable through the whole of the visit and can then visit again and not be comfortable again. One who is visiting is one who if any one is asking that one to visit them is one who visiting is not comfortable and will be more uncomfortable. Any one being visited is one doing something and being one doing something is one doing anything. Doing anything is doing everything. Doing everything is something.

Any one took some one somewhere and having taken them they left them. Any one going anywhere is one going and being going any one who is knowing that thing knowing that some one is going is one who is one knowing something.

Some came in. Some were there. Two came in. Two had been there. The two who had been there were there. The two who came in were there. There were four there.

The four there the two who came in and the two who had been there the four there were all then there and being there they did not stay there. The two who came in did not stay there, they left and the two who had been there were the two who were there.